tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post7390789354032921440..comments2023-11-03T06:26:00.486-07:00Comments on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Fellowship of Reconciliation commentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-64856738313631855742008-10-05T10:23:00.000-07:002008-10-05T10:23:00.000-07:00I don't know CC. LF put it very well but I think t...I don't know CC. LF put it very well but I think that Rev. Scott Wells put it rather more succinctly and pithily and thus *best* in my view when he said -<BR/><BR/>"There’s a difference between a diplomat and a dilettante."<BR/><BR/>Then again there's a difference between a prophet and a patsy. . .Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-15748514209546234522008-10-04T18:08:00.000-07:002008-10-04T18:08:00.000-07:00I really thought I was done with this topic but th...I really thought I was done with this topic but then I followed your link. I was deeply disturbed when I read there that "the questions had to be filtered."<BR/><BR/>I had wondered why the questions were so softball, and now we know. If Ahmadinejad only answered the questions he wanted to anyway, this this was just plain theatre all around. I'm not sure why you think any real communication occurred at all. <BR/><BR/>Also, mentioning that Ahmadinejad was given the questions in advance would have been the honest thing to do in the press release and I'm disturbed that the UUA apparently didn't think we needed to know that. <BR/><BR/>LF said it best in my comments:<BR/><BR/>"One thing I retain from him is a conclusion that diplomacy of the sort to which Sinkford was pretending in this encounter is not for amateurs. Sinkford has now become one of the numerous Westerners who have been used by a master of such ploys as he experienced."<BR/><BR/>Sinkford pretty much spoke the lines Ahmadinejad's people allowed him to. <BR/><BR/>I can't imagine any of the historial figures you listed a few days ago, people with actual courage, ever going along with that. <BR/><BR/>CCChalicechickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-52183077937299247072008-10-04T15:11:00.000-07:002008-10-04T15:11:00.000-07:00Apropos of nothing, I appreciate your differentiat...Apropos of nothing, I appreciate your differentiating power "over" versus "power to". More and more in a "flat" world such as ours, power "over" is so 20th century.Mile High Pixiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03276750909800945131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-29929649205025580032008-10-04T14:06:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:06:00.000-07:00Thanks for speaking to the topic, Robin. I genuin...Thanks for speaking to the topic, Robin. I genuinely appreciate that.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-10950517120367891372008-10-04T14:00:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:00:00.000-07:00Thanks for posting that comment rev. Ketchum. It i...Thanks for posting that comment rev. Ketchum. It is genuinely appreciated.Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-1510893235523241202008-10-04T12:26:00.000-07:002008-10-04T12:26:00.000-07:00I would interpret the general lack of conversation...I would interpret the general lack of conversation about UUA President Bill Sinkford's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the ministers' email list and elsewhere as most likely being embarrassed silence, particularly in light of what has already been posted on some minister's blogs. Let's face it. There are very few U*U ministers lavishing praise on President Sinkford for his alleged "incredibly courageous" and "historic" PR stunt. You know the old saying, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." It applies very well to U*U ministers who pretty well have such a code of silence written into the <A HREF="http://www.uuma.org/files/Guidelines2008.pdf" REL="nofollow">UUMA Guidelines and Code of Professional Practice</A> (PDF file). N'est-ce pas? <BR/><BR/>I have to say that it is certainly quite refreshing to see some U*U minister disregarding this Omerta-like code of silence that strongly discourages U*U ministers from publicly criticizing the actions of their colleagues. Would that more U*U ministers would openly criticize questionable behaviour of their colleagues, to say nothing of the unquestionably unprofessional and unbecoming conduct of some U*U ministers.Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com